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Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook (1978)
January 1, 19786mEN
7.0
1 votes
Overview
A BAFTA award winning short tribute to the artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), which explores a small number of the thousands of drawings he is reputed to have produced during his lifetime
Director
Tony WhiteTop Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
N/A
Revenue
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Production Companies
Tony White Productions
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CinemaSerf
7.0Given that he started drawing aged six and died aged eighty-nine, some 30,000-odd drawings later, it was always going to be nigh on impossible to do his career too much justice in five minutes, but with a charming score and a selection of some of his immaculately detailed woodblock animations it does open a door to encourage further investigation. Apparently his talents ran from drawing two perfect sparrows onto a single grain of rice to painting something so large an horse could walk through it, and the narration that augments this rapid-fire selection of imagery fills in some of the gaps in…
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